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Yacht Design Experts Dissect How an 'Act of God' Sank Bayesian

Yacht Design Experts Dissect How an 'Act of God' Sank Bayesian

Chris Freer, Tad Roberts, Roger Long

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Aug 23, 2024
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Beauty and grace—gone in minutes. (Perini Navi photo)

The ancients and not-so-ancients would have blamed the Bayesian catastrophe on angry gods or (later) a single, angry god. Apparently, nothing pisses off a god more than a super-tall structure, which, like the Tower of Babel, can symbolize human pride and arrogance. After initial mystification, the yac…

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